Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31


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ADVANCES AND REDUCTIONS IN RATES.
No advance shall be made in the rates,
fares, and charges, which have been es-
tablished and published as aforesaid by
any common carrier, in compliance with
the requirements of this section, except
after ton days notice, which shall plainly
state the changes proposed to be made
in the schedule then IN force, and the
time when the increased rates, fares Or
charges will GO into effect; and the pro-
posed changes shall be shown by printing
new schedules or shall be plainly lndicat-
ed upon the schedules In force at the
time and kept for public inspection. Re-
auctions in such published rates, fares or
charges may be made without previous
public notice; but whenever any such re
duction is made, notice of the same shall
Immediately he publicly posted and the
changes made shall Immediately be made
public by printing new schedules or shall
Immediately be plainly indicated upon
the schedules at the time in force and
kept for public inspection. And when
any such common carrier shall have es
tablished and published it's rates, fares
and charges, in compliance with the
provisions of this section, it shall be un-
lawful for such common carrier to charge,
demand, collect or receive from any per-
son or persons a greater or less compen-
satien for trans portation of passengers
or property, or for any service in con-
nection Herewith than is specified in
such / ublished schedule of rates, fares and
charges as may at the time be in force.
SCHEDULES FILED WITH COMMISSIONERS.
Every common carrier subject to the
provisions of this act shall file with the
commission hereinafter provided for cop
les of its schedules of rates, fares and
charges which have been established and
published in compliance with the require
me- is of this section, and shall promptly
nj sIfy said commission of all changes
made in the same. Every such common
carrier shall also file with said commits
sion copies of all contracts, agreements
or arrangements with other common car
riers in relation to any traffic affected by
the provisions of this act to which it may
be party. And in cases where passen-
gers and freight pass over continuous
lines or routes operated by more than
one common carrier, and the several COM
mon carriers operating such lines or
routes, establish joint tariffs or rates or
fares or charges for continuous lines or
routes, copies of such joint tariffs shall
also, in like manner, be filed with said
commission. Such joint rates fares and
charges on such continuous lines so filed
as aforesaid shall be made public by such
common carriers when directed by said
commission, in so far as may, in the judg-
ment of the commission, be deemed prac-
ticable and said commission shall from
time to time prescribe the measure of
publicity which shall be given to such
rates, fares, and charges, or to such part
of them as it may deem it practicable for
such common carriers to publish, and the
places in which they shall be published;
but no common carrier party to any such
Joint tariff shall be liable for the failure
of any other common carrier party there
to to observe and adhere to the rates,
fares, Or charges thus made and pub,
lished.
FAILURE TO FILE OR PUBLISH RATES.
If any such common carrier shall neg
lect or refuse to file Or publish it's SEIZED
ules or tariffs of rates, fares and charges
as provided in this section or any part of
the same, such common carrier shall in
scribed, be subject to a writ OF mandam-
US to be issued by any circuit court of
the United States in the judicial district
wherein the principal Office of said COM
mon carrier is situated or wherein such
Offense may be committed, and if such
common carrier be a foreign corporation,
in the judicial circuit wherein such COM
mon carrier accepts traffic and has an
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compliance with the aforesaid provisions
of this section, and such writ shall issue
in the name of the people Of the United
States at the relation of the commission
ers appointed under the provisions of
this act; and failure to comply with its
requirements shall be punishable as and
for contempt; and the commissioners
as complainants, may also apply in any
such circuit court Of the United States
for writ of Injunction against sush
common carrier from receiving or trans
porting among the several states and ter
ritories of the United States Or between
the United States and adjacent foreign
countries, or between ports of trans
shipment and of entry and the several
states and territories of the United
States,as mentioned in the first section of
this act. until such common carrier shall
have complied with the aforesaid provis
ions of this section of this act.
COMBINATIONS TO PREVENT CONTINUOUS CAR
RAGE.
Sec. z. That it shall be unlawful for
any common carrier subject to the pro-
visions of this act to enter into any com
bination, contract or agreement, express
ed or implied, to prevent, by change of
time schedule, carriage in different cars,
or by any other means or device, the car
riage of freights from being continuous
from the place of shipment to the place
of destination; and no break of bulk,
stoppage or interruption. made by such
common carrier shall prevent the carriage
of freights from being and being treated
as one continuous carriage from the place
of shipment to the place of destination,
unless such break, stoppage or Interrupt
ton was made in good faith for some
necessary purpose, and without any intent
to avoid or unnecessarily interrupt such
continuous carriage or to evade any of
the provisions of this act
LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES
Sec. 8. That in case any common car
rier subject to the provisions of this act
shall do, cause to be done, or permit to
be done any act, matter or thing in this
act prohibited or declared to be unlawful,